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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1909
Page
9
The piece from The Constitution features a Washington Bureau note, jokes about Taft, Tillman, and world events, plus satirical quips on ice, opera, and celebrities. It wittily surveys weather, politics, and culture with playful, era-appropriate barbs, naming figures like Root, Rockefeller, and Gilman.
The Associated Charities campaign gains momentum as Mystic Shriners of Atlanta join, pledging to sponsor 1090 new members. The Order of Old-Fashioned Women attracts wide female support, prompting Mrs. Robert F. Maddox to host a major afternoon meeting to unite wives mothers daughters and sweethearts in a city wide effort to relieve destitution.
City council affirmed a resolution dedicating Piedmont Park to exclusive park use. The park commission must immediately plan comprehensive improvements, duplicating Grant Park’s success and connecting Piedmont with a new broad boulevard for Atlanta’s two grand public spaces.
The piece questions wartime jingoism as Congress votes 136 million for armor and ships while Japan pursues peaceful growth. It argues the United States should prioritize commercial strength over a colossal navy, urging peaceful competition in the East and restraint from military escalation.
A. J. Henderson of Ocilla Ga presents a farming method using scientific, diversified practices on a 504 acre farm. In one year he produced 431 bales of cotton 3500 bushels of corn 2000 bales of hay and 200 bushels of potatoes. His success is portrayed as proof that Georgia can gain wealth through economy and modern machinery.
Fragmentary lyric piece mixing dialect verses and readings about honey symbolism and a cyclone of images. It blends Georgia dialect lines with a flood of rural imagery, noting honey, picnics, rivers, and a bluesy chorus about hope, danger, and providence.
A dialect piece narrates Br’er Williams warning that perseverance and patience out of trouble may be needed, while a skeptical old man protests a newspaper report of Judge Jim Griggs gaining influence against moonshine politics. The dialogue references government policy on excise, the governor’s stance, and bartered liquor with a rural Southern voice and social commentary.
An editorial urges supporters to back the Associated Charities and the Mystic Shriners in recruiting 1000 new members. It praises the charity’s work transforming beggary into thrift, dependency into self support, and at risk youths toward citizenship, urging business leaders to join a practical community effort.
Dr John E. White, pastor of Second Baptist, travels from Atlanta to Cleveland, Pittsburg, and Baltimore as a speaker for the International Home Missions Publicity Campaign. He outlines a movement that urges living as Christ did, aiming to inspire home missions and drawing wide local interest in Atlanta.
Governor-elect Brown outlines a practical view of the office and its duty to enforce laws. He insists he will act as a servant of the people, refusing to let others press personal hearts and fortunes upon the state. The address emphasizes common sense and commitment to governance over political theater.
An elderly man returns to his native town after years away and asks about Ea Ferguson. He hears Ferguson is doing well, “has the beat everywhere,” and runs the depot. The speaker recalls a younger brother Lem who “never amounted to much” and pursued poetry and painting.
Sherman Thomas faced trial on charges of wrecking freight on the Southern railway during the early morning of October 20. The trial began in Rome with Judge Floyd presiding and witnesses examined for the state, including a fireman and a conductor, while the defense represented by Eubanks Copeland and Wright. The case, noted as having peculiar features, is expected to take most of the next two days.
A dated literary verse by Frank L. Stanton from January 25 1908 extols Bobby as a muse to rest from literary toil. It invokes winter May day imagery with Annie Laurie Tam o Shanter and daisy scenes, praising song, music and the singer’s enduring influence in grand cadence.
Washington January 26 The summer general issued two circulars to United States marshals warning that under no circumstances must U S prisoners in their charge be allowed to have intoxicants except upon advice of law officials The circular threatens removal of any officer for disobedience
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